Bita Moghaddam
@bita137.bsky.social
Ketamine Karen, Dopamine Dame
Here via Tehran/KU/Yale/Pitt
author of KETAMINE https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542241/
and a lot of good papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNB2KvkAAAAJ&hl=en
Here via Tehran/KU/Yale/Pitt
author of KETAMINE https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542241/
and a lot of good papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNB2KvkAAAAJ&hl=en
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Bita Moghaddam
@bita137.bsky.social
· Jan 16
An amazing honor to give NIH’s WALS lecture today as the last speaker under the leadership of NIH Director Dr Monica Bertagnolli
Blast from the past 👵🏻
1997 catecholamines Gordon Research Conference
(when doing dopamine research was far less trendy but so much more fun)
1997 catecholamines Gordon Research Conference
(when doing dopamine research was far less trendy but so much more fun)
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Blast from the past 👵🏻
1997 catecholamines Gordon Research Conference
(when doing dopamine research was far less trendy but so much more fun)
1997 catecholamines Gordon Research Conference
(when doing dopamine research was far less trendy but so much more fun)
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🌟 Meet #FENS at Neuroscience 2025!
FENS, @network-alba.bsky.social and @ejneuroscience.bsky.social have had a fantastic few days at Neuroscience 2025, hosted by @sfn.org! 🇺🇸
FENS, @network-alba.bsky.social and @ejneuroscience.bsky.social have had a fantastic few days at Neuroscience 2025, hosted by @sfn.org! 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌟 Meet #FENS at Neuroscience 2025!
FENS, @network-alba.bsky.social and @ejneuroscience.bsky.social have had a fantastic few days at Neuroscience 2025, hosted by @sfn.org! 🇺🇸
FENS, @network-alba.bsky.social and @ejneuroscience.bsky.social have had a fantastic few days at Neuroscience 2025, hosted by @sfn.org! 🇺🇸
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
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Over the weekend, CPCR hosted a satellite event to the 2025 @sfn.org conference. Researchers around the world gathered to discuss the latest advances in psychedelic neuroscience—sharing successes and challenges of translational models and exploring strategies to bridge preclinical and clinical work.
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Over the weekend, CPCR hosted a satellite event to the 2025 @sfn.org conference. Researchers around the world gathered to discuss the latest advances in psychedelic neuroscience—sharing successes and challenges of translational models and exploring strategies to bridge preclinical and clinical work.
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On NPR's nationally syndicated radio program "All Things Considered," three SfN members speak about the funding and career challenges facing the neuroscience community.
🔗 vist.ly/4enax
#NeuroAdvocate #SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence
🔗 vist.ly/4enax
#NeuroAdvocate #SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence
Young brain researchers ponder other careers amid federal funding cuts
Cuts and disruptions to federal research funding are causing many young brain scientists to reconsider their career choice.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
On NPR's nationally syndicated radio program "All Things Considered," three SfN members speak about the funding and career challenges facing the neuroscience community.
🔗 vist.ly/4enax
#NeuroAdvocate #SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence
🔗 vist.ly/4enax
#NeuroAdvocate #SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence
triaging 2/3 of NIH grants sounds terrible but if the funding line is to remain at ~5%, this may increase the time for more thoughtful discussion of grants with top scores so that, for example, the difference between 3% vs 6% scored grants is less arbitrary and/or scores are better spread??
Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
triaging 2/3 of NIH grants sounds terrible but if the funding line is to remain at ~5%, this may increase the time for more thoughtful discussion of grants with top scores so that, for example, the difference between 3% vs 6% scored grants is less arbitrary and/or scores are better spread??
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" #Ketamine disrupts #consciousness in healthy participants in relation with #psychotic-like symptoms"
🥸 This is the title of our last preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social giving some insights on how ketamine at subanesthetic doses mimicks psychosis symptoms!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🥸 This is the title of our last preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social giving some insights on how ketamine at subanesthetic doses mimicks psychosis symptoms!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ketamine disrupts consciousness in healthy participants in relation with psychotic-like symptoms
Ketamine is an NMDA-receptor antagonist, which alters the state of wakeful consciousness at high doses. At lower doses, it induces reversible psychotic-like symptoms and has been used as a pharmacolog...
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
" #Ketamine disrupts #consciousness in healthy participants in relation with #psychotic-like symptoms"
🥸 This is the title of our last preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social giving some insights on how ketamine at subanesthetic doses mimicks psychosis symptoms!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🥸 This is the title of our last preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social giving some insights on how ketamine at subanesthetic doses mimicks psychosis symptoms!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Looks like a chair position in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has opened up.
Any peeps looking to relocate to Pittsburgh?
Any peeps looking to relocate to Pittsburgh?
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Looks like a chair position in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has opened up.
Any peeps looking to relocate to Pittsburgh?
Any peeps looking to relocate to Pittsburgh?
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The fungi scene at the Oregon coast is amazing this weekend. Check out the size of this lobster mushroom 😍
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The fungi scene at the Oregon coast is amazing this weekend. Check out the size of this lobster mushroom 😍
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
NYT obituary of Jim Watson.
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
View from the lab today: an arc rainbow 😍
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
View from the lab today: an arc rainbow 😍
Warm congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social for winning the Mika Salpeter award. Incredibly well-deserved as I know of few other stellar neuroscientists who have advanced the careers of women in the field
Congratulations to the 2025 SfN award & prize recipients!
Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries.
SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25.
Learn about the recipients.
🔗 vist.ly/4cni8
#neurosky
Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries.
SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25.
Learn about the recipients.
🔗 vist.ly/4cni8
#neurosky
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Warm congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social for winning the Mika Salpeter award. Incredibly well-deserved as I know of few other stellar neuroscientists who have advanced the careers of women in the field
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Voters of this great country are not disappointing tonight
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Voters of this great country are not disappointing tonight
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Awesome visit and talk from @bita137.bsky.social as part the UAB Neurobiology Seminar Series today taking us through glutamate/dopamine interactions and contributions to psychosis and schizophrenia.
October 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Awesome visit and talk from @bita137.bsky.social as part the UAB Neurobiology Seminar Series today taking us through glutamate/dopamine interactions and contributions to psychosis and schizophrenia.
Fall means leek season and my favorite rice dish - I use ample coconut oil to make a proper tahdeeg
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Fall means leek season and my favorite rice dish - I use ample coconut oil to make a proper tahdeeg
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A word that has become a euphemism for promoting and selling things without data or evidence
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A word that has become a euphemism for promoting and selling things without data or evidence
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🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function
Nature Neuroscience - Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI...
nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
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My department, Cornell BME, is hiring!
This tenure-track faculty position is a great opportunity to join a vibrant community that values research, teaching, and entrepreneurship.
📝 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30816
This tenure-track faculty position is a great opportunity to join a vibrant community that values research, teaching, and entrepreneurship.
📝 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30816
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My department, Cornell BME, is hiring!
This tenure-track faculty position is a great opportunity to join a vibrant community that values research, teaching, and entrepreneurship.
📝 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30816
This tenure-track faculty position is a great opportunity to join a vibrant community that values research, teaching, and entrepreneurship.
📝 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30816